11-Letter Words Starting with C

Caterpillar that is a pest of certain green vegetables

CACODEMON An evil spirit; a devil or demon.

Cacomistle

Caddisworm

Double-duty schoolrooms

Cajolement

Calamander

Calamondin

""CALCIMINE A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water.""

Radioactive element of atomic number 98

Element named for a US state

Radioactive element

Noisy demonstrations

Calmodulin

Heat measuring device

Heat-measuring device

Apparatus to measure quantity of heat

Measuring of latent heat produced by Tory miracle

""CALUMNIATE To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.""

Calumniate

One who calumniates.

Spirit of friendliness and trust

Esprit de corps

Closeness from dear America's uncertain

Giraffes

A woman who operates a movie or television camera.

Female shooters arrived with harsh warning

Camerlengo

Escaping detection

Hidden

Camouflage

CAMOUFLAGE

Activists making gain excitedly embraced by people in tents

Trying to win the support of voters

Electioneering

The art of bellringing

Bell-ringing

Bellringing

Bellshaped.

Outdoor accommodations

Oily and exaggerated husband held forth

A politician in church preached, becoming oily

Camphorate

Campiness

Menorah, for example

Holder for several lights

Source of light when lit

Cankerworm

Not very humanist practice (wordplay)

The eating of one's own species

Like eating like

Cantonment

Capitalism

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C 5 H 10 NHCO [from capro ( ic acid ) + lactam ]

""CARAMELISE to to change into caramel, by the action of heat; as, The sugar caramelized quickly.as, The sugar caramelized quickly.""

Caramelise

Like sugar that's been heated until it turns brown

Browns, as onions

Cancer

Cardiogram

Carmagnole

Drug relieving flatulence; vitamin care (anagram)

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass carpogonial   adj CATCHPHRASE (= slogan ) → slogan m ; [ comedian, famous person ] → formule f hc_En_Fr() CENOSPECIES pl -species (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) a species related to another by the ability to interbreed dogs and wolves are cenospecies [from Greek koinos common + species ]""

Catabolism

CATACLYSM An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Like a violent upheaval

With violent upheaval

Relating to violent upheaval

""Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous. anadromous.""

""Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechical.""

Catechumen

The practice or system of rule by a caudillo.

The practice or principles of cavaliers.

Ceilometer

The act or process of cementing.

An inch equals 2.54 of these

A ruler may have them

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) Genetics a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency [named after Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945), US biologist]""

Centralism

Centromere

""Pertaining to the centromere, the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis.""

Centrosome

Ceramicist

They help maintain balance

Formalities.

Appropriate to grand formal occasions

Like a solemn observance

Elaborately polite

CHAIRMAN to act as chairman of

Presided over

A perennial plant that sets its dormant vegetative buds just at or above the surface of the ground.

Court official - former Prime Minister!

British Prime Minister, 1937.

PM's domestic officer

Servant combining charm with bed? I am!

Source of mints, at times

Making bed with charm, am I? Possibly

""CHAMELEON A lizardlike reptile of the genus Cham\'91leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back. Cham\'91leo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.""

Champerty

CHAMPER one that {champs=v}

Champignon

Champion

Having compelling charm

Able to attract and inspire people

1999 2 out of 3 winner

The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; attractiveness: a breezy tropical setting of great charm.

""Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Hydnocarpus, whose seeds contain an oil formerly used to treat skin lesions caused by leprosy and other diseases.""

Chauvinism

Checkmark

""CHECKMATE The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, which ends the game.""

Chemisette

Chemisorb

Chemistry

The characteristic movement or orientation of an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either toward or away from the chemical stimulus.

CHERNOZEM

Chimaerism

A type of deep-fried burrito

Tortilla appetizer

Adjective meaning resembling

J. Goodall subjects

Goodall subjects

Primates

Palm reader

Chironomid

Chloramine

Chloroform

Man of music.

Church music leader

Lifter of voices

""The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.""

CHROMATIN Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

The difference between one color and a reference color of the same brightness and chromaticity.

""Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria. as, chromogenic bacteria.""

Chromomere

CHROMOMERE

Not staining readily with dye. Used of a cell or cell structure.

Any chemical group or residue (as NO<?/; N<?/; or O<?/) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.

""A plastid that contains pigments other than chlorophyll, usually yellow or orange carotenoids.""

CHROMOSOME One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann. idant of Weismann.

Genetic bundles

Threadlike bodies that carry genes in a linear order

Chronogram

Metal casing on timer? No, I'm timer

Instrument measuring time

Watch to find the enemy's position

The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.

Of or belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.

A quiet laugh of mild amusement or satisfaction.

Female pastor, e.g

Female pastor, for example

A woman who is a cleric.

One of the microscopic particles of emulsified fat found in the blood and lymph and formed during the digestion of fats.

Cicisbeism

Cimetidine

Cinchonism

Cinemagoer

CINEMATIZE

Cinematize

""CIRCUMCISE To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.""

One who performs circumcision.

Circumcise

CIRCUMFUSE To pour round; to spread round.

Circumfuse

Revolving about or surrounding the moon.

""About the pole; applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars. as, circumpolar stars.""

Cautious PC cuts crime drastically

Cautious, prudent

Cautious around religious group, taking first precautions in their midst

Circumvent

""A high-altitude cloud composed of a series of small, regularly arranged cloudlets in the form of ripples or grains.""

In a vociferous fashion

Classicism

Botany Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

A woman who is a member of the clergy.

Female priests

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

Critical period or event

William -, Eng. politician, philanthropist

Atmosphere around college mostly productive? That's a crucial point

Study of long-term weather

Study of alarming changes, nowadays

Clinometer

Cliometric

Clomiphene

Bacterium causing tetanus and botulism

Bacterium

Coadmit

Coatimundi

Cochampion

Little men with big ideas.

Cockneyism

Cocomposer

Codominant

Coembody

Coemploy

Coenamor

""Inflected form of ENZYMATIC Inflected form of ENZYME a complex protein, also ENZYM""

Percolator, machine for making hot drinks

Colemanite

See springtail .

A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

""COLLIMATE To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.""

""The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument.""

Collimator

Colloquium

""LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""

Policy that forms empires

Ethnocentric foreign policy

""An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.""

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

Colostomy

A dovecote or pigeon house.

""COLUMNIST a journalist who writes or edits a regularly scheduled column{8} in a periodical, usually in editorial style; a type of editorialist.editorialist.""

Combative

Items joined together

Student's lock opener

Marriage state? Tease one at first

Produced by a combinatorial process.

COMBINATE United; joined; betrothed.

Capable of igniting and burning

Easily excited with clue, it bombs miserably

Inflammable

COMBUST to {burn=v}

Combustion

""MEDICALLY In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.""

Stand-up kind of gals (wordplay)

Coca, May, Raye, etc.

Funny femmes

Articles of food

Timeless cob (anagram) - food

Deserved rebuke Slang.

Deserved rebuke: Colloq.

Deserved rebuke Colloq.

At ease in body or mind

Like a broken-in easy chair

Cosy; free from money worries

COMFORT to {console=v}

Offering no consolation

Lacking consolation

Capable of being commanded.

Commandant

Takes possession of.

'Borrows' peremptorily

Borrows peremptorily

Order (one of ten)

A divine rule

Any of the Decalogue

Mark (an earlier event)

Serve as a reminder of

Celebrate, remember

Worthy of praise

Deserving praise

COMMEND to {praise=v}

Commensal

COMMENTATE To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

Commentate

Sports match reporter

One who reports on sports event

Broadcaster describing sports events

Programmus interrupti

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

""Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. as, comminatory terms.""

""COMMINGLE To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.""